Big Fat Snakes?

[NoHall]

I remember seeing the part where he squatted down and looked down to find one squarely between his legs. He didnt look to thrilled at that point of the show.;-)

I loved that part...I also liked the one where he went to get a black mamba out of someone's home and realized that if the snake were an inch longer or he was an inch shorter, that bad boy was gonna bite him. (Thank goodness he didn't have OMBs, or he'd-a been a goner!)

My boss (sadly, my ex-boss as of this afternoon!) told me that his wife found a snake in the hedge in front of their porch. It was a black snake, and he regretted that he killed it later when he realized it was more beneficial than harmful.

But he said he cut the head off while the snake was still in the hedge, and then pulled the snake out by the tail. In his words, "I started pulling the tail, and I pulled...and pulled...and pulled...and when I finally got the whole snake out it was so big and heavy that it actually landed with a 'thud' on the ground." It was probably a 6' king snake.

 

[organicmama]

We had an Eastern Ribbon Snake right outside the window, right where the kids usually play, today. Mr. OM freaked out. I looked it up in our book & showed him what it was. He calmed down & said he wished Riv could have seen it but she was at school. He & Little Guy saw a Racer last week just off the path near Topsail.

 

[greenroomsurfer]

Check out the lounge

 

[NoHall]

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Here's a Florida black racer.

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I missed this before, Rita. This looks just like my new little friend, and we've had black racers here before. My dad once had one in his wallet in the back pocket of his coveralls, but that's another story...

 

[greenroomsurfer]

See the greenroom an snake thread in the lounge

 

[organicmama]

See the greenroom an snake thread in the lounge

Saw it. Yuck.

 

[steele mama]

I do not like pictures of snakes.

 

[organicmama]

I do not like pictures of snakes.

How did you survive down here for so long or in that part of GA you're in?

 

[steele mama]

How did you survive down here for so long or in that part of GA you're in?

I have seen a few down there in person but I never wanted to see them!! Black Racer was racing across the driveway when I was real young. Bull or hog snake outside of our door one time. He was big! Friend got bitten by a water moccosin in Western Lake. My cousins killed rattle snakes they found in the dunes and we cooked them. Well, they cooked them. I tasted it. "Taste like chicken."

 

[organicmama]

I have seen a few down there in person but I never wanted to see them!! Black Racer was racing across the driveway when I was real young. Bull or hog snake outside of our door one time. He was big! Friend got bitten by a water moccosin in Western Lake. My cousins killed rattle snakes they found in the dunes and we cooked them. Well, they cooked them. I tasted it. "Taste like chicken."

In Curacao, I was told that Sopa di Iguana (Iguana soup) tasted like chicken once. I wanted to run the other way. Especially after I accidently cornered one while hanging out clothes on the line in the backyard. It was screaming & hissing at me. That's something I don't want to run up against ever again... although I'll never be hanging clothes outside on the island of Curacao again. That's a nasty critter.